Blind camera comparison: Vote for the unidentified cameraphone you like best!

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04 Oct 2013, 09:14posted on

Smartphone cameras are getting better and better every year, companies are leapfrogging themselves all the time, the industry is progressing at a breathtaking pace... With so much going on, and with the next big thing always lurking right around the corner, it's easy to lose track of exactly how all the players rank when it comes to camera performance...

Phone 5 is the galaxy s4 because blue is more than any. all samsung cameras adds unrealistic blue color to photos, since the dawn of time.

one thing it is unfair for the lumia 1020 to be upscaled from 5 mp even if it was good enogh 5 to 13 is a huge difference if quality loss. it should be down scaled from the 38 MP photo. same goes to the other 8MP photos if there exist any in this test.

you gotta be kidding me! you gotta be kidding me!
either you dont know much phones or you are die hard samsung fan to say opposite stuff so proudly.ither you dont know much phones or you are die hard samsung fan to say opposite stuff so proudly.
i would say its nokia 1020 but the contrast isnt that high then it has to be xperia z1.
got a feeling phone 4 is nokia 1020.
i dont know, im still excited to see what phone is phone5. it has some great shots.
just hoping its not iphone 5s. i so hate how iphone always wins.(giving credit for it actually being good)

I liked the phone #4 the most out of the pictures taken outside. 5 and 6 must have big sensors to work well in low light and take in too much light thus not being able to show the power lines in a sunny sky.

In the Scene #1, Phone 2 is not picking up the ground. Takes advantage of the balance of brightness. And all the pictures are focused on different areas.

In Scene #2, you can see the shadows on the sidewalk on the left, the photos were made ​​with much different light. In Phone 2, the sunlight is more directly on the lens. In Phone 3 the sun is out of the picture!

In Scene #3, Phone 6 is clearly suffering from a motion blur. This is the fault of the operator and not the equipment.

Phone 5 is the galaxy s4 because blue is more than any. all samsung cameras adds unrealistic blue color to photos, since the dawn of time.

one thing it is unfair for the lumia 1020 to be upscaled from 5 mp even if it was good enogh 5 to 13 is a huge difference if quality loss. it should be down scaled from the 38 MP photo. same goes to the other 8MP photos if there exist any in this test.

The idea here is not to guess which phone is used in every picture, but to say, sincerely and without trying to guess, which picture is better. This is because a blind test allows you to rate the pictures without being influenced by your brand preferences.

They said that pictures have been resized to 13mp. The 100% crops are 100% crops of the 13mp image. Until now we have seen only 2 kinds of pictures from the 1020: the 41mp pictures, which of course suffer from the fact that they are taken by a small 41mp sensor, and the 5mp pictures created by the phone with pixel binning, which are easily the best... when you look at 5mp pictures. But what happens once you downsample the 41mp images to the 13mp that its competitors are using? Because every phone delivers sharp images when downsized to only 5mp. Do you have a real improvement? I guess that the 1020 is in the test, and we will see if the 41mp deliver once downsized to the 13mp that the others use.

So they are lying about 100% crops. Using a scaling algorythmn and recompressing a JPG is going to have an effect. Just say "We scaled them all to the resolution of the lowest competitor" Then load and resave *all* of them using the same jpg compression settings so they have the a chance to introduce jpeg artifacts on all of them.

If phone arena downscaled the photographs from 41 mp to 13mp, objects in the picture would appear a lot smaller. Clearly they don't, so I call shenanigans on yet another bias shootout from these clowns.

"Note: We've scaled all images to 13 megapixels and removed all EXIF data so that you can't identify the phones."
- so the iP5s is not included knowing it has only 8mp? btw Phone 2 looks good the signboard was clear

Fully agree, but I voted for #2 as the #5 oversaturates a lot!
I bet it´s one the Lumias. But I really would like to know which one is the number 2 as for me it´s be best.
Saddly I suspect of the iPhone 5S, but I hope they surprise me.

For my own reference:
2. Best in general, not that good in low light.
5. Very good but oversaturated, extremely good in low light.
4. Quite good, also in low light.
3. Quite good, regular in low light.
1. Quite good, not that good in low light.
6. General failure.

Honestly they all look good except the last set where phone 6 was badly out of focus. Also in that last set the color looks good except in phone 5, but that may be closer to what it should be, can't say. In the middle set phone 6 seems to have the best looking exposure.

No low light samples? That's all that really sets them apart now. And can't set all cameras to 13MP? I guess not.

Very nice test! Number 2 and number 5 are a step above the others, while number 2 is better in good light (they are similar in scene #1, but number 2 is clearly better in scene #2, look at the wires, for example), number 5 seems to have an edge in the interior shot (scene #3). Anyway, if you look closely, that's because the picture taken with number 2 suffers from camera shake, i.e. the tester should retake it with firm hands!
That's why I voted for number 2.

Actually it's not a very nice test - a sloppy amateur effort IMO. As you noted, half of the scene #3 shots suffer from camera shake - obviously in need of a re-take, but they just slapped it together and put it in the test anyway. Next time they need to hold off on the coffee and take the time to do it right.

Three completely different lighting conditions and I'm finding I like a different phone for each condition. Hard to pick which of the three I find dominant. I will say this though, camera 6 needs some major work. If 6 is the Moto X, please tell me the shots were taken before the camera software update.

These are pretty darn close in quality during daylight, except for the last, which is upscaled, so I guess it's the HTC One. The first 3, maybe even 4 are Sony Exmors, my tip would be #1 the G2, #2 & #3 the Note 3 and S4. #4 could be the iPhone 5S, #5 is likely the 1020 due to the larger FoV, #6 is the HTC One.

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